DATA CONSUMPTION ON
ANDROID AND BLACKBERRY PHONES
The NCC as a regulator is responsible for
promotion of fair competition in the
communications industry and protection of
communications services and facilities
providers from misuse of market power or
anti-competitive and unfair practices by
other service or facilities providers or
equipment suppliers.
The issue of data usage on Blackberry and
Android smart phones has been generating a
lot of comments lately and the Commission
has
a duty to protect and inform all
stakeholders in
the industry on all issues of concern.
RIM, the manufacturer of BlackBerry,
utilizes a
special compression algorithm to serve users
of
Blackberry handsets who have subscribed for
Blackberry internet service. Whenever such a
subscriber browses the internet and opens a
webpage, a request is sent via the handset's
browser requesting for the page to be
downloaded to the phone. This request is
channeled to RIM’s gateway in Canada,
which
fetches the webpage, compresses it and
sends
the compressed data back to the BlackBerry
phone as a download.
On an Android phone, the request to open a
webpage by telephone subscribers is sent to
the gateway of the network operator which
then
processes the information and sends back
the
page to the Android phone as a download
(the
data is not compressed - thereby requiring
more bandwidth).
The amount of bandwidth uploaded is
identical
between both Blackberry and Android
phones,
the difference lies in the fact that most of
what
subscribers do on their phones is to download
content which varies on both. BlackBerry is
indirectly subsidizing bandwidth by
compressing the content downloaded by
subscribers.
In effect, an internet subscriber using an
Android smartphone to open a webpage may
be downloading 100KB of data, while a
subscriber using a Blackberry opening the
very same webpage would be downloading
25KB due to the compression of data by
RIM.
Bandwidth in Nigeria is an expensive
resource,
because most data is transferred wirelessly.
This
is the reason why the NCC is promoting wired
infrastructure around the country through
such
projects as WIN (Wire Nigeria) as well
promoting
a Broadband Roadmap for the country
which
will greatly reduce the cost of bandwidth
thereby reducing the cost of browsing the
internet on smartphones.
d above was NCC response to my query on
why can't network providers make other
data cheap instead of on
blackberry............
ANDROID AND BLACKBERRY PHONES
The NCC as a regulator is responsible for
promotion of fair competition in the
communications industry and protection of
communications services and facilities
providers from misuse of market power or
anti-competitive and unfair practices by
other service or facilities providers or
equipment suppliers.
The issue of data usage on Blackberry and
Android smart phones has been generating a
lot of comments lately and the Commission
has
a duty to protect and inform all
stakeholders in
the industry on all issues of concern.
RIM, the manufacturer of BlackBerry,
utilizes a
special compression algorithm to serve users
of
Blackberry handsets who have subscribed for
Blackberry internet service. Whenever such a
subscriber browses the internet and opens a
webpage, a request is sent via the handset's
browser requesting for the page to be
downloaded to the phone. This request is
channeled to RIM’s gateway in Canada,
which
fetches the webpage, compresses it and
sends
the compressed data back to the BlackBerry
phone as a download.
On an Android phone, the request to open a
webpage by telephone subscribers is sent to
the gateway of the network operator which
then
processes the information and sends back
the
page to the Android phone as a download
(the
data is not compressed - thereby requiring
more bandwidth).
The amount of bandwidth uploaded is
identical
between both Blackberry and Android
phones,
the difference lies in the fact that most of
what
subscribers do on their phones is to download
content which varies on both. BlackBerry is
indirectly subsidizing bandwidth by
compressing the content downloaded by
subscribers.
In effect, an internet subscriber using an
Android smartphone to open a webpage may
be downloading 100KB of data, while a
subscriber using a Blackberry opening the
very same webpage would be downloading
25KB due to the compression of data by
RIM.
Bandwidth in Nigeria is an expensive
resource,
because most data is transferred wirelessly.
This
is the reason why the NCC is promoting wired
infrastructure around the country through
such
projects as WIN (Wire Nigeria) as well
promoting
a Broadband Roadmap for the country
which
will greatly reduce the cost of bandwidth
thereby reducing the cost of browsing the
internet on smartphones.
d above was NCC response to my query on
why can't network providers make other
data cheap instead of on
blackberry............
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